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Alonso was born Isabel
Apolonia GarcĂa Hernández in Central Lugareño, CamagĂĽey, Cuba, to a Cuban father and Mexican mother. She initially achieved recognition in Cuba for her dancing ability, becoming a sensation at Cuba's National Theatre in
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Dolores, which is arguably the best film role of her career. Chelo then made a brief appearance in a variation of that previous role, also called Dolores, in another cult western, the bizarre
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Alonso was first noticed internationally in the 1959 film,
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Chelo Alonso died on 20 February 2019, at the age of 85.
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